<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Live In An Ageist Society</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live in an ageist society where ageing people are treated as second class<br>Where the ageing man and ageing woman are seen as inferior to the young man and the young lass<br>And the older you get life gets harder the future belong to the young<br>And so many on retirement pensions are lonely, forgotten and unsung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They worked hard for to raise their children but they will end their days in a retirement home<br>And their children don't visit them often 'twould seem that their usefulness they have outgrown, <br>One might say they've had a good innings though nothing easy came their way<br>And I do not find it consoling to think their lot will be my lot one day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fear growing old more than I fear death their last few years so few enjoy<br>But I suppose that there is consolation to know that the wealthy too grow old and die<br>And life too will go on without them their money will not keep them alive<br>The Reaper one day he will claim them though to an old age they survive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live in an ageist society and ageism is on the increase<br>One can feel happy for the dear departed at least they can now rest in peace<br>Rejected in their old age and lonely with only their good memories left to recall<br>And only the Reaper awaits them the Reaper who waits for us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582223" data-title="We Live In An Ageist Society de Francis Duggan" data-description="We live in an ageist society where ageing people are treated as second class Where the ageing man and ageing woman are seen as inferior to the young man and the young lass And the older you get life gets harder the future belong to the young And s..."></div> </div> </div>

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